The attorney general of Missouri is suing Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the United States, for “trafficking minors out of state to obtain abortions without parental consent.” ...

Bailey is seeking a court order to block Planned Parenthood Great Plains from taking children out of state to get abortions without their parents’ knowledge. The suit accuses the organization of showing a pattern of statutory violations, noting that in 2018, Planned Parenthood’s facility in Columbia, Missouri, was shut down when staff admitted to using “moldy abortion equipment for months.”

The lawsuit also highlights that Planned Parenthood physicians admitted in court in 2018 that for the prior 15 years, they had failed to comply with the state’s laws requiring abortionists to file reports when mothers undergoing abortions experienced medical complications.